Last week, the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition (CIRC) sent a delegation of eleven Colorado residents to Washington, D.C. to meet with our Colorado Congressional delegation about the urgent need for just and fair immigration reform. We had the opportunity to meet with nearly the entire delegation, including Congressman John Salazar and staff for Senator Wayne Allard and Congressman Tom Tancredo. However, we were refused an appointment with Congressman Doug Lamborn, even after requesting a meeting more than ten days in advance. Read more…

On the fourth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, President Bush pleaded for patience. Give the new offensive a chance to work, he said. But the debate over whether to give the “surge” a chance distracts from what really matters: the U.S. occupation per se. Read more…

What better, more productive thing to do than complain about the President, how his administration handles every minute detail of domestic and international affairs, and how his appointees behave? Never mind that the Democratic Party’s best-loved pets both past and present have done everything (and far worse) than anything of which the current administration has been (wrongly) accused. I, for one, am sick and tired of the incessant, puerile bickering the leftist demagogues are spewing out on a daily basis. Read more…

Why is Bush attaching so many conditions on allowing Rove and Miers to talk to Congress regarding the firing of the federal prosecutors? It has to be in private, with no record kept and not under oath? Why? What is the White House afraid of or trying to hide? If one assumes that Rove and Miers plan to tell Congress the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, why should they care if it is under oath, in public, and on record? Read more…

Vincent Carroll is The Denver Post's editorial page editor. He has been writing commentary on politics and public policy in Colorado since 1982 and was originally with the Rocky Mountain News, where he was also editor of the editorial pages until that newspaper gave up the ghost in 2009.

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